remage’s validation suite

These web pages provide a report of the remage validation suite.

• About this validation report

Sections

• Double-beta decay physics
  • Primary electron properties
• Vertex confinement
  • Natively sampleable solids
  • Complex solids
  • Unions and intersections
  • Volumes with daughters
  • Generic surface sampling
  • Dedicated simulations for Ge in LAr
• HPGe detector distance to surface
• Comparison with NIST
  • Electron interactions
• Neutron transport and capture spectrum
  • Steel captures
  • Geant4 nCapture vs RMGnCapture
  • Relative cross-section of gadolinium
  • Argon transport
  • Complex geometry
• HPGe tracking and observables
  • Electron tracking plots
  • Step limits effect on observables
  • Production cuts effect on observables
• Physics lists
  • Default (no extra options)
  • With hadronic physics (shielding)
  • With hadronic physics (shielding) with external gamma cascades
  • With inner bremsstrahlung enabled
  • Optical physics enabled
• Internal Bremsstrahlung in Ar-39 decay
  • Validation test
  • Reference
• Muon physics validation
  • Introduction
  • Validation approach
  • 1.) Energy loss of muons in matter
  • 2.) Muon induced neutron yield
  • Neutron production processes
  • 3.) Isotope production
  • 4.) Muon shower dimensions
  • References
• Gamma correlations
  • Expected correlations
  • Simulated correlations
• Optical physics
  • Scintillation emission
  • Cerenkov emission
  • Light detection (surface physics)
  • Attenuation (Absorption & Rayleigh scattering)
  • Wavelenth-shifting (WLS)
• Performance Benchmarks
  • Combine low energy tracks option
• Th-228 HPGe energy spectrum
  • Setup
  • Simulation and post-processing
  • Results
  • References